The 2021 Census found that women and girls “accounted for 81.7% of the 6,067 increase of people experiencing homelessness in 2021”.31 The rate of homelessness for women and girls increased in 2021 to 42 women and girls per 10000, up from 41 in the 2016 Census.32 The number of women and girls who were homeless increased by 10.1% between the 2016 and the 2021 censuses, while homelessness among men a. [...] 23 Glass Ceilings: Gendered Inequality in the Housing System | Per Capita Satisfaction with housing system A key finding of the Australian Housing Monitor was a lower-than expected level of belief in the benefits of increase in house prices over the longer-term. [...] 37 Glass Ceilings: Gendered Inequality in the Housing System | Per Capita Domestic and family violence The findings of the Housing Monitor survey lend support to a wide body of recent research pointing to women’s inability to leave unsafe domestic situations due to housing expense. [...] For example, Equity Economics has estimated an additional 7,690 people had returned to an abuser in 2020 because of a lack of suitable housing options.76 Additionally, 22,600 respondents to the ABS’s Personal Safety Survey in 2016 stated that they had been unable to leave a violent partner due to a lack of financial support.77 In the Housing Monitor, a high proportion of respondents in the survey. [...] While social housing and private rental tenants reported equal levels of satisfaction with the location of their home to their families and social networks, social housing tenants were more likely to report dissatisfaction in areas including appropriateness of heating and cooling systems, location in relation to respondent’s workplaces, and responsiveness of relevant parties (such as landlords) to.
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